Government exists to serve the public, and fairness should be at the core of its operations. However, favoritism, cronyism and nepotism frequently interfere — elevating individuals based on personal connections rather than merit while sidelining qualified professionals.
The last time I spoke to Dave Bundy, I told him he was in my Mount Rushmore of editors — the gold standard, the best of the best.
If Virginians elect Abigail Spanberger as governor this November, they’ll get more of the same — reasonable-sounding proposals followed by hard left actions and legislation.
When a CBS News medical correspondent claimed recently that we’re accumulating a plastic spoon’s worth of plastic in our brains, her colleagues looked horrified, and for good reason. Surely, that much plastic would gunk up our cognitive machinery.
Today, bad guys lurk in the amorphous world of cyberspace, which for so many kids has displaced the safer meeting spaces — the basketball courts and ballfields, the youth clubs and fast-food joints — that I recall from my youth.
The recent decision to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is not just a blow to international aid — it is a direct assault on Virginia’s economy.
Thank you for covering the decision by Sens. Scott Surovell, Mamie Locke and the Democratic caucus in the Virginia Senate to strip Sen. Jennifer Boysko of her chairmanship of the Senate Transportation Committee and seat on the Rules Committee just for standing up for her constituents ("Boysk…
Michael Shank’s Feb. 7 column ("Despite assault on clean energy, the future remains bright for solar") notes that location choices for solar power are critical. The recently passed bill promoting solar canopies over large parking lots (House Bill 2037, sponsored by Del. David Bulova, D-Fairf…
🎧 When people feel powerless about political shifts, they seek ways to push back. This episode explores different forms of activism, their effectiveness and whether they create meaningful change.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been Health and Human Services secretary for little more than a week, but he’s already pressing what looks like an anti-vaccine agenda. Kennedy never did disavow his vaccine views in the runup to Senate confirmation. He merely said he wouldn’t take away anyone’s vaccines. But the HHS secretary has many tools to undermine vaccines, and his early moves are revealing.
On the day before the third anniversary of the brutal, lawless invasion of Ukraine, "Fox News Sunday" host Shannon Bream pressed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on whether it's "fair to say" that Russia's attack was unprovoked. Hegseth responded that it's "fair to say it's a very complicated situation."
Ukraine on Monday marked the bleakest anniversary yet of its war against the Russian invasion, with the country's forces under severe pressure on the battlefield and U.S. President Donald Trump's administration apparently embracing the Kremlin in a reversal of U.S. policy.
The results of Youngkin’s education policies are in, and they are a disaster for Virginia’s students. Instead of addressing the real challenges — math recovery, reading gaps, teacher shortages — his administration has spent its time pushing an extremist agenda that does nothing to improve learning outcomes.
NIMBY stands for "not in my backyard." It's often employed as a shaming tool to portray those unwilling to turn their neighborhoods over to developers as selfish or even racist. It's a weapon in efforts to plow through zoning laws put in place to preserve a sense of community and the comfort of continuity.
For the first time in 30 years, Richmond and its suburban neighbors are contemplating a truly regional government authority.
Wherever one lands on the ideological spectrum, no matter your politics, morality, religion, or “gender ideology,” the idea that female athletes must be protected from domineering “biological males” posing as transgender women is irrational and baseless.
When you campaign on the promise to remove 11 million or more undocumented immigrants in the U.S. who are “poisoning the blood of our country,” it’s disingenuous to accuse other people of fearmongering. Just two weeks into Trump’s second term, the fear within our most vulnerable communities is all too real.
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If Virginians elect Abigail Spanberger as governor this November, they’ll get more of the same — reasonable-sounding proposals followed by hard left actions and legislation.
When a CBS News medical correspondent claimed recently that we’re accumulating a plastic spoon’s worth of plastic in our brains, her colleagues looked horrified, and for good reason. Surely, that much plastic would gunk up our cognitive machinery.
Today, bad guys lurk in the amorphous world of cyberspace, which for so many kids has displaced the safer meeting spaces — the basketball courts and ballfields, the youth clubs and fast-food joints — that I recall from my youth.
🎧 When people feel powerless about political shifts, they seek ways to push back. This episode explores different forms of activism, their effectiveness and whether they create meaningful change.
Government exists to serve the public, and fairness should be at the core of its operations. However, favoritism, cronyism and nepotism frequently interfere — elevating individuals based on personal connections rather than merit while sidelining qualified professionals.
The recent decision to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is not just a blow to international aid — it is a direct assault on Virginia’s economy.
Thank you for covering the decision by Sens. Scott Surovell, Mamie Locke and the Democratic caucus in the Virginia Senate to strip Sen. Jennifer Boysko of her chairmanship of the Senate Transportation Committee and seat on the Rules Committee just for standing up for her constituents ("Boysk…
Michael Shank’s Feb. 7 column ("Despite assault on clean energy, the future remains bright for solar") notes that location choices for solar power are critical. The recently passed bill promoting solar canopies over large parking lots (House Bill 2037, sponsored by Del. David Bulova, D-Fairf…
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